Grant Programs
April 16, 2025
Project Assistance
Arts Circulation and Touring supports eligible arts and culture organizations, collectives and individuals with circulation and touring activities both within British Columbia and outside of the province. Grants received in this program are intended to enhance professional and artistic opportunities and exposure of B.C. artists, collectives, and arts organizations regionally, nationally, and internationally. Assistance through this program is available to arts and culture organizations, collectives and to individual art practitioners through three categories.Early Career Development - Organizations
Open for Intake
June 25, 2025
Project Assistance
Early Career Development supports immersive and highly impactful opportunities, with measurable learning outcomes, for Emerging and Early Career Practitioners to: Develop their artistic or administrative practice. Participate in knowledge transfer, skill sharing, and reciprocal learning in the sector. Expand their career experience, professional networks, and exposure. Build capacity in their identified community(ies) (for example, geographic, cultural, area of practice).December 19, 2024
Project Assistance
The Accelerate Program is a two-year initiative to improve access and reduce barriers to funding for equity deserving and regional arts and culture organizations and collectives.September 15, 2022
Operating Assistance
Performing Arts Organizations provides funding to assist the general operations of established non-profit arts and culture organizations working in professional dance, music, theatre, comedy, circus, or multidisciplinary performing arts. The program is intended for organizations that sustain an annual artistic program encompassing creation, development, production, and public presentation.May 22, 2025
Project Assistance
Supports eligible literary arts organizations or collectives to develop, enrich, and promote Canadian literature and writers through publishing, presentation, and dissemination of literary works and the development of new or unique public programming and community engagement initiatives.May 22, 2025
Project Assistance
Supports the development, creation, production, realization, dissemination, or live performance of classical, experimental, original, traditional, and contemporary performing art forms from all world cultures. Performing Arts includes dance, music, theatre, multidisciplinary, or other performing arts practices such as circus arts and comedy.Ongoing
Project Assistance
Access Support provides an additional contribution towards costs for specific accessibility services and supplies, rental equipment, and other supports required to carry out a project funded by the BC Arts Council (referred to as the “associated grant”).Ongoing
Project Assistance
Application Assistance provides a contribution towards costs for artists and arts and culture practitioners who are Deaf or have a disability, to register for the online grant system, and create and submit applications, project updates, and final reports for BC Arts Council grant programs.April 9, 2025
Project Assistance
Arts Impact Grants are responsive and flexible funding for arts and culture organizations and collectives. The intention of the program is to allow applicants to prioritize a specific project or group of related activities that will provide the most meaningful impact to their organization, artistic practice, or to their community.October 17, 2024